The Top 9 Reasons New Year’s Resolutions Fail (And How to Beat Them)

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Co-authored by STACK Senior Content Director Brian Sabin.

Another new year is here, meaning right now, millions of people are chasing after new goals they’ve set for themselves—goals they will never reach. The problem isn’t lack of effort or desire. Most of the time, people choose New Year’s resolutions that aren’t reasonable to begin with. And even when people do pick the right targets, they can run into many pitfalls—some of them painfully simple—along the way. Here are nine common stumbling blocks that stop people short of their Jan. 1 promises to lose weight, add muscle or start eating better, along with smart strategies for overcoming them from some of the nation’s top fitness experts.

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